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Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by usr1106 »

paxys wrote: post #38

Fun joke at Sony's expense but it's going to spectacularly backfire when Microsoft inevitably announces that the next Xbox won't support physical discs.

It won't backfire because there is no relevant competition. A couple of complains on social media, but no drop in sales.

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by numpad0 »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #33
jedbrooke wrote: post #9

> Supplies are limited, and the first 1,000 eligible submissions will receive one. Limit one per person. Availability may be limited by country or region. This seems quite limited to be a real product, but also quite a lot for seemingly what’s just a joke to mock Sony for ceasing blu-ray production. It’s worth mentioning that github does (did?) do some cool stuff with physical media archiving of code like the arctic…

Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a Redmond office building...

There are fully automated disc burner bots. EPSON models take 100 discs at once and burn up to 30 discs per hour, so 1000 discs is just 10 magazine load/unloads or 1: https://epson.com/Support/Other-Products/Discproducers/Epson...

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by gnabgib »

ronjakoi wrote: post #88
whalesalad wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the day I ordered the free disks by the hundreds

Disks are magnetic. The optical kind are discs.

What? Disks are a 2D shape. Some computer discs are magnetic, many involve etchings, or apparent etchings perceived by a laser.

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Post by recursive »

wwind123 wrote: post #84
recursive wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Headphone jack mentioned. I'm not going to stop buying phones based on them until there are no such options remaining, God forbid.

I used to hate phones without the headphone jacket too, even though my headphone lines always needed some detangling out of my pocket when I needed them. But then I tried a pair of Bluetooth earbuds (two earbuds connected with a plastic band to hang on your neck), and actually fell in love. No need to detangle lines, and when I don't listen to things I could just take down the earbuds but leave the plastic band on my…

I use Bluetooth also. But for some purposes the jack works better. Reliable audio output for the purpose of recording for instance.

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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Post by vlovich123 »

ninjin wrote: post #79
vlovich123 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Put in a request for the OpenBSD src repository, which is too big to fit on a CD these days and I am looking forward to see if/how they square that circle. From literally the first few sentences: > If we can make you a CD, it may take a few weeks to reach you. They just won’t send it to you. Also keep in mind that they say it has to be your repo - not sure how they’re verifying that but you probably won’t get it fo…

Riddle me this, what was the cost to me in terms of trying? If I feel like treating this like the fun we used to have online, what is the point in sucking all the fun out of it by "going lawyer" on the conditions? If I get a CD (or even DVD), it will be a fun story to tell (like when I asked Schneier to write a true Schneier Fact as opposed to his signature when I ordered a signed copy of one of his books). If I get…

You speculated wondering how they’ll manage it, I gave you an answer. If that ruined the fun for you, you may want to rethink how you say things on message boards.
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